If you need further proof that college students are indoctrinated by liberal professors, look no further than Goddard College in Vermont, where the students selected a convicted cop killer to deliver their commencement speech. What exactly will the graduates learn? How to kill a police officer and manipulate the legal system to avoid the death penalty, as Abu-Jamal has done?

The
United States government has a debt problem. Last year, we had a big
fight in Washington over how to deal with that. It wasn’t a productive
debate. It did not end in a long-term solution.

There
hasn’t been quite as much talk about the budget in Washington, but the
dirty dishes of debt keep piling up. Arguing and shutting down the
government won’t fix the problem. It’s going
to require compromise to get a solution, courage to pass legislation
and then perseverance to make sure it is held to.

First,
let’s look at the problem again. Right now, our national debt is over
$17.7 trillion, an increase of $7 trillion from 2008. By the end of this
year, federal debt held by the public will
reach 74 percent of our annual GDP. The Congressional Budget Office
estimates that it will climb to 111 percent by 2039. That would be
unsustainable.

Those
are big numbers, but they have a real impact. Last year, we paid $221
billion in interest on the debt. In ten years, annual interest rates
could quadruple. Wouldn’t we rather spend those
billions of dollars on something worthwhile? Money spent on interest
doesn’t help anyone and hurts our economy and job growth.

The
reality is that debt payments will be growing at the exact same time
that important programs like Medicare and Social Security will be facing
funding crises. Every dollar spent on keeping
our creditors at bay is a dollar less for critical medical care and
support for older Americans.

The
trust fund for Medicare’s hospital insurance program will be depleted
by 2030. That means that if we do nothing, hospitals could get a 15
percent cut to reimbursements in a single year.
Inevitably, it would make getting care at a hospital more expensive and
more difficult.

The
Social Security trust fund is currently projected to be depleted just
three years later. By current law, there would be an instant 20 percent
cut to payments to seniors. Imagine trying
to shop or pay the bills with that much cut out of your budget? That
could be what millions of seniors are facing in less than 20 years.

The
best way to tackle debt is economic growth, but that’s been a problem
here in the United States also. Since the economic downturn, annual
growth has only been at 1.1 percent and even the
optimistic projection of the Congressional Budget Office says that over
the next ten years it could average 2.5 percent. That is just barely
enough to create jobs for the millions of Americans entering the
marketplace every year.

It’s
not that Americans aren’t paying a lot of taxes. In fact, the federal
government has been collecting record amounts of revenue in the past few
years. Government spending, however, is up.
Federal spending averaged around 20 percent of the economy for much of
the past 40 years. But now for the last four years, that has increased
to 22.8 percent. Small numbers here make a big difference, especially
since government revenue as a percentage of
the economy is basically unchanged. Spending has grown tremendously,
tax revenue has not.

Last
year, after fighting to the point where Democrats and Republicans
couldn’t keep the government open, we effectively declared a truce and
passed a budget agreement for 2014 and 2015. I
supported this agreement, knowing that more argument wasn’t going to
solve the problem.

We’ve
had relative budget peace in Washington this year, but the problem is
far from solved. This is not an easy problem to solve, and it is going
to require a far more civil discourse then
we saw in 2013.

Next
year, no matter who wins out in the elections, Congress will have to
create a new budget. It is my hope that we can make real progress on
moving back to a balanced budget and away from
massive deficits. Ignoring the problem longer, only makes cleaning it
up harder and more painful.

U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts is a Republican who represents Pennsylvania's 16th Congressional District.

Even The Philadelphia Inquirer, which endorses Democrats 99% of the time, is having a hard time believing millionaire Democrat Tom Wolf's scheme to "tax the rich" to get Pennsylvania out of its fiscal woes. Tom Wolf is an empty suit.

Pennsylvania will continue to pay out $10 billion a year in welfare claims, but the money will no longer becoming from the Department of Public Welfare. To avoid the stigma of the world "welfare," the agency is now known as the Department of Human Services. George Orwell would be proud.

What will the far-left kooks at MSNBC cover now? With all the real scandals in the Obama administration, the looney liberals at the low-ranted news network have obsessed for months over the phony scandal involving NJ Gov. Chris Christie.

Nothing too surprising in a new Pew Research survey on what conservatives and liberals say is important to teach children.

Judging from how morally bankrupt our society has become these days, it's clear the the liberal influence in public education and mass media has corrupted an entire generation of Americans.

From the new report:

People who express consistently conservative political attitudes
across a range of issues are more likely than other ideological groups
to rate teaching religious faith as especially important – and the least
likely to say the same about teaching tolerance.

By contrast, people with consistent liberal opinions stand out for
the high priority they give to teaching tolerance – and the low priority
they attach to teaching religious faith and obedience.

WEST
CHSTER, PA – Ryan Costello, the Republican candidate for Congress in
Pennsylvania's 6th District, challenged his opponent to a friendly
political wager on Sunday's
Philadelphia Eagles-Washington game. On the line: Costello – who lives
and works in Pennsylvania -- would deliver a case of craft beer from
Pennsylvania’s Victory Brewing to his opponent if the Eagles lose while
Trivedi – who lives and works primarily in Washington, DC -- would owe
Costello a case of DC Brau if Washington loses.

In
addition, Costello announced today that he picked up the endorsement of
former Eagles offensive tackle Jon Runyan, who played in Philadelphia
from 2002 to 2008. Runyan is currently a Member of Congress
representing New Jersey’s 3rd District.

“I
am proud to endorse Ryan Costello for Congress,” said Runyan. “Ryan
will fight for his district. He has a record of working in a bipartisan
manner to get things done. Ryan has balanced budgets, held the line on
taxes and worked to preserve open space for families and farms.”

As
far as this weekend’s Philadelphia-Washington match-up, Costello
extended the offer of a friendly political wager in an email to Trivedi
this afternoon. The e-mail reads:

Dear Manan:

Although
we are entering the final few weeks of campaign season, the NFL
football season is just getting underway. I thought it might be a
refreshing break to make a friendly political wager on this weekend's
upcoming Eagles-Washington game.

As
someone who has lived and worked in the Philadelphia area my entire
life, I am a die-hard Eagles fan. I am so confident in an Eagles victory
that if -- by some stroke of bad luck -- Washington beats Philadelphia,
I will bring a case of Pennsylvania's own Victory Beer -- made a few
miles from my home in Chester County-- to your campaign office.

Conversely,
I know that you own a home in the heart of Washington and your filings
with the Clerk of the House of Representatives show you earned 95
percent of your income last year -- and 100 percent this year -- from DC
hospitals and health consulting firms. Heck, your main employer, the
Washington Hospital Center, was the longtime "official hospital” of
Washington’s NFL team and lists you on their website as a doctor of
internal medicine.

So,
if your Washington team loses, you would owe me a case of a craft beer
from Washington, DC, such as DC Brau or Capitol City Brewing.

No real surprise here. Tom Corbett is a former two-term attorney general in Pennsylvania and as governor, signed the state's Castle Doctrine law. Millionaire Democrat Tom Wolf supports gun control. This just in from the National Rifle Association:Fairfax, Va. – On behalf of our five million members across the country, the National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF) is proud to endorse Tom Corbett for Governor in Pennsylvania.

Based on his support of and commitment to the Second Amendment, Corbett has earned an "A" rating from the NRA-PVF in the 2014 general election. An "A" rating is reserved for a solidly pro-gun candidate who has supported the NRA’s position on issues of importance to gun owners and sportsmen.

"Tom Corbett has stood up to the gun control crowd and protected our Second Amendment freedoms in Pennsylvania," said Chris W. Cox, chairman of the NRA-PVF. "As Governor, he signed into law 'Castle Doctrine' legislation expanding protection to law-abiding citizens for self-defense. Prior to that, when he served as Attorney General, Tom tripled the number of right-to-carry reciprocity agreements with other states allowing Pennsylvanians to better protect themselves and their families while traveling outside the Keystone state."

Gov. Corbett has a proven record supporting our fundamental, individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms. He believes hunting is a valuable tool for wildlife management, a positive use of natural resources, and an American tradition that teaches young people responsibility and respect for the outdoors. In addition, Corbett signed pro-gun "friend of the court" briefs in the landmark Heller and McDonald cases asserting that the Second Amendment guarantees a fundamental, individual right for all law-abiding Americans.

"We can continue to count on Tom Corbett to stand up for our constitutional freedoms in Pennsylvania," added Cox. "On behalf of the NRA's five million members, I want to thank Tom for his steadfast support of the Second Amendment and urge all NRA members, gun owners and sportsmen in Pennsylvania to vote Tom Corbett for Governor on November 4."

An Important Call To Action From the Pennsylvania Taxpayers Cyber Coalition:

Tomorrow, Tuesday, September 16, at 11:00 AM the Senate Finance Committee will meet to vote on SB 76, the Property Tax Independence Act.

We
need to show massive support SB 76, so please call AND email EVERY
Senator on the Finance Committee NOW to request their vote in
committee. In all contacts, please be respectful and non-threatening.
You have until 11 AM tomorrow to get this done. Contact information is below.

Barack Obama may have his head stuck in the sand when it comes to the growing threat from Islamic extremism, but 6 in 10 Americans (62%) are "very concerned about the rise of Islamic extremism around the world, which is the largest share dating back to 2007," according to a new Pew Research Center survey.Growing Concern about Rise of Islamic Extremism at Home and Abroad

Friday, September 12, 2014

Like
many other Americans, I’ll never forget where I was on September 11,
2001. I saw firsthand the damage to the Pentagon, passing plumes of
black smoke rising as I drove
to the Capitol on that morning.

These
horrific attacks, which killed over 3,000 innocent people, were sudden,
and jolted the country out of a decade of relative calm after the
downfall of communism.

Thirteen
years later, our country, which in the previous century defeated
totalitarians called fascists and ones called communists, continues to
face the specter of totalitarians around the
world, some using the Muslim faith as their pretext.

We
have sacrificed greatly since then. As the world’s indispensable
nation, to whom all free peoples look for hope, we have borne the heavy
weight of the responsibility that comes with prosperity
and power. It is neither a coincidence nor an accident, that the United
States is the top target of terrorists: the very greatness of America,
the success of our model of self-governing free people, is offensive to
them.

Evidence
coming out of Iraq and Syria, sad to say, confirms this. Minority
groups are being driven by the hundred-thousand into exile or
relentlessly pursued for extermination by the so-called
“Islamic State,” or ISIL, which controls a territory the size of the
United Kingdom. ISIL is well-funded, well-armed, and well-manned.

ISIL
began as al-Qaeda in Iraq, but after ISIL refused orders from al-Qaeda
Central to stop killing so many Syrian civilians, Bin Laden’s former
group publicly renounced ties to ISIL on February
3. ISIL simply has no respect for human life, and no respect for
economic or religious liberty, as they continue to remorselessly kill
children, political dissidents, apostates, and religious dissenters by
the thousands.

ISIL
threatens our homeland. They have murdered two Americans, recruited
hundreds of Americans, and, according to Francis Taylor of the
Department of Homeland Security, ISIL supporters are
plotting to sneak through our vulnerable southern border. In June, a
jihadist social media posting showed a picture, with a dated,
handwritten note, in Chicago and Washington reading, “we are in your
cities.”

The
President has rightly taken action against ISIL, authorizing airstrikes
in Northern Iraq to prevent an outright genocide of the Yazidi people. I
share his goal to “degrade and ultimately
destroy” ISIL, and I am prepared to work with him to protect the
American people and American interests.

The
attacks thirteen years ago and the stark reality in today’s Middle East
remind us also of the many blessings we enjoy in this country. Though
Republicans and Democrats have our differences,
we are both committed to this country, and we believe that our ideas
will help our fellow Americans. It is more exciting of a headline, I
know, to report on bickering and backbiting, but the reality is that we
do work together on a variety of issues all the
time.

I
was pleased to speak recently at a conference entitled “In Defense of
Christians” with colleagues on both sides of the aisle, including Reps.
Darrell Issa, Brad Sherman, Chris Smith, Kerry
Bentiviolio, and Dan Lipinski. Though we may not agree on absolutely
everything, we stand together for the protection of the inalienable
human rights for innocent civilians and minorities around the world.

We
cannot count on these or any threats to freedom to go away: they won’t.
As Ronald Reagan put it in 1961, at the height of the Cold War,
“freedom is never more than one generation away from
extinction. We didn't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream.
The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight
for it, protect it, defend it and then hand it to them with the well
thought lessons of how they in their lifetime must
do the same.” It might be tempting to pull back from the world stage
and hope that freedom’s enemies will leave us alone, but we know that
they will not.

As
we mark this solemn anniversary of this mass murder, may we stand
together once again, as we did in those dark hours thirteen years ago,
and recommit ourselves to the principles that make
this nation exceptional.

###

US Rep. Joe Pitts is a Republican who represents Pennsylvania's 16th Congressional District.

Coventry Christian School is holding its annual Founders Dinner on October 11, 2014.
The keynote speaker will be best-selling author Eric Metaxas, best
known for his biographies of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and William
Wilberforce.

Metaxas has written several other books and
is now producing a movie in Germany about the life of German martyr
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was executed by the Nazis during World War II.

Metaxas' more recent book is "Seven Men: And the Secret of Their Greatness"
which features mini-biographies of seven prominent men of faith,
including George Washington, Jackie Robinson, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Pope
John Paul II and Chuck Colson.

The book details their lives and how faith played an important role in their achievements.

Tuesday, September 09, 2014

Most Americans believe President Obama "has done more to divide than to unite the country."

Some other highlights from a new Washington Post/ABC News poll:

Barack Obama’s rating for strong leadership has dropped to a new low in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, hammered by criticism of his work on international crises and a stalled domestic agenda alike.

You'll learn more about millionaire Democrat Tom Wolf from this one article in Philadelphia Magazine than you have from all the so-called coverage in the past year from the pro-Democratic press in Pennsylvania. Some highlights from Steve Volk's profile of Wolf, who is likely to become Pennsylvania's next governor if polls are to be believed. Volk writes that Wolf is not the Forrest Gump he's made out to be in those folksy television commercials.

Some highlights from the article:

"The result is that Pennsylvania may be led
by a governor we’ve only just met, the electoral equivalent of setting
up house after the first dinner date."

"He’s rich, yes, but he’s no tycoon. His
$10 million contribution to his own campaign included $4.5 million
acquired through a personal loan."

"In truth, Wolf is much more than the
folksy two-dimensional character his ads make him out to be. He is
amiable, yes, but he’s also the ambitious and calculating scion of a
proud and powerful family,

"Still, compared to most other gubernatorial candidates, Wolf’s political résumé is a bit thin."

On whether he purchased his brief tenure as Ed Rendell's revenue secretary by making a huge donation to Rendell's campaign: "When I asked Wolf about the discrepancies
between his campaign narrative and Rendell’s earlier recollection of
events, he waved them away, saying, "Uhh, I don't remember."

"The answer seems like a dodge, as if Wolf
would prefer to pretend he was called to duty rather than acknowledge
that he methodically built a CV for a future gubernatorial campaign. But
there’s a trail suggesting Wolf is a lot more calculating than he lets
on. He donated more than $250,000 to Rendell’s campaigns between 2002
and 2006. Rendell has acknowledged in the past that a big donation buys
you a meeting (Wolf and his wife have donated more than $1.6 million to
various state and county candidates since 1998), so it could be argued
that Wolf didn’t just purchase this last primary election; he also sank
some cash into his application for a position in Rendell’s cabinet."

"Wolf could hardly have mounted a credible
run in 2010 against the backdrop of the smoking ruin of the Wolf
Organization, a company bankrupted by a loan taken out largely to pay
him."

Eric Heyl takes a look at the light work schedule for Pennsylvania legislators, who draw a base salary of $83,000 for what they consider a "full-time" occupation, but the amount of time these lawmakers spend in Harrisburg makes you wonder if they're getting paid too much for part-time work.

Mark Ferkler is a Delaware County resident in his mid-thirties. He’s healthy, gainfully employed, and now, thanks to Obamacare, is newly uninsured. Yes, you read that right — uninsured.

Despite the president’s promise to lower insurance costs, as Mark found out, the Affordable Care Act often isn’t affordable at all.

Mark is a Democrat and believes health coverage should be accessible to everyone. But he’s faced with a dilemma: “I was dropped from my health insurance that was $150 a month and my boss paid half of it ... Now I would have to pay over $340 a month as a single person, and I just can’t afford it!”

Simply keeping up with his current expenses can be a challenge for Mark. Absorbing a more than 400 percent increase in cost for a service he rarely — if ever — uses is just too much for him to swallow.

Mark’s reaction to Obamacare’s personal toll is hardly unique. The latest monthly health care poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation shows the law’s popularity is plummeting. Nationwide, 53 percent now view Obamacare unfavorably — the highest number yet recorded by this poll and worse even than after the disastrous launch of Healthcare.gov.

Why, after the public has finally had a chance to benefit from the president’s signature legislation, are people turning against it?

While subsidies are available for many, Mark says he doesn’t qualify for help. “Apparently I make too much money, and yet I can barely pay my bills as it is. I would certainly have to change my entire lifestyle to have insurance. It’s just so hard to justify when I haven’t been to a doctor once in the last 10 years.”

This dilemma is common among so-called “young invincibles” stuck subsidizing older adults under Obamacare’s community rating scheme. Left with a choice between huge premium bills or no insurance coverage, Mark reluctantly chose the latter.

“It saddens me,” he says. “Not only do I not have insurance, but I’ll have to pay a fine as well!”
A major reason for skyrocketing premiums is Obamacare’s mandated coverage for services many will never use — even if they do get severely ill.

William Cinfici from Berks County was happy with his health insurance but received a cancellation letter this year. New plans offered to him —a single, childless man — required coverage for maternity and pediatric care at a steep jump in price.

William was appalled by the patronizing mandates, saying, “They are taking my freedom away — punishing me for being responsible and saving for care.”

William also notes that higher premiums for irrelevant coverage take discretionary income out of his pocket — with real consequences: “I’ll have to postpone some things, probably deferring maintenance around my house. It’s less I’ll be spending in the local economy. You can call it a negative stimulus.”

While Mark and William were happy with their previous coverage, most would agree that Pennsylvania and the nation needed health care reform before Obamacare was passed.
But reform that’s more expensive and less flexible isn’t the answer.

Thankfully, there are options that can actually bring about Obamacare’s promises of affordability, accessibility, and better quality care, but the solution doesn’t lie in more government intrusion.

Mark’s insurance premium could be more affordable if his employer was allowed to contribute tax-free dollars to a selected individual plan. It would be cheaper still if the federal government didn’t dictate coverage mandates — many that William may never use — like coverage for labor and delivery.

Further, state lawmakers can ease waiting times and improve the quality of care by encouraging more physicians to locate in Pennsylvania through House Bill 1760 — which gives doctors liability protection if they volunteer to help the neediest among us at free clinics.

And Senate Bill 1063 would allow nurse practitioners to run their own practices, as they currently can in 17 other states, improving patient accessibility.

Mark Ferkler, William Cinfici, and millions more deserve real health care solutions that don’t punish them for working hard and staying healthy. They deserve more than fines and broken promises. Cost-saving solutions are out there for those falling through the cracks, but they won’t be found in the Affordable Care Act.

# # #

Elizabeth Stelle and John R. Bouder are policy analysts at the Commonwealth Foundation (CommonwealthFoundation.org), Pennsylvania’s free-market think tank based in Harrisburg.

Wednesday, September 03, 2014

In case you were wondering how your tax dollars are being spent in Harrisburg, here's an interesting report. And keep in mind that all 203 members of the Pennsylvania House and half of the members in the 50-seat state Senate are up for reelection on Nov. 4. You may want to give incumbents more time for reading by sending them home permanently.

When will these ISIS terrorist thugs realize that the phrase “U.S. journalist” concerns geography, not political science?

Killing journalists from this county does get you headlines, but history tells us that it’s an ignorant, tragic and foolish belief to think that the government of the United States will change geo-political directions because journalists die.

Clearly, those who Tuesday killed journalist Steven Sotloff — and who killed photojournalist James Foley on August 19 — are as ignorant or deliberately dismissive of how a free press functions as they are brutal in their methods of gaining the world’s attention.

Journalists from a nation with a free press do not control the news. They do not make the news. And they do not collaborate with, nor are they controlled by, those who do. Here’s a headline from the real world: There is no direct line between the Pentagon, White House and any news organization in America where policy is set or strategy is determined.

For more often, the press in America — whether reporting domestically or from other nations — is seen as a counterweight to official statements by U.S. government officials, and a watchdog on whether the nation’s leaders are doing what they say they are doing.

Yes, at times, the U.S. press wrongly has taken government at its word: The failure to fully pursue what turned out to be unsupported claims of “weapons of mass destruction” still echoes today. But more often, journalists operating under the shield of the First Amendment have been seen as critics or even opponents of what the nation’s political leaders recommend or the course being pursued.

Famously, a U.S. press reporting freely from Vietnam is blamed by some as a reason “America lost the war.” Reports from journalists on the scene called into question information from U.S. military briefings and enemy body counts. The famed “credibility gap” that plagued several administrations was rooted in the difference between what high White House officials said about the progress of that war and what the nation on a daily basis read in newspapers and saw on TV.

It’s difficult to think of an important public issue on which there is not some American journalist asking the difficult questions or challenging official accounts, which makes the fate of Foley and of Sotloff — who disappeared while reporting from Syria in 2013 — as senseless as it is tragic.

If ISIS was serious about changing American public opinion, it would not do so with tactics that will simply harden public support for U.S. military strikes against it. We need look no further than the most serious terrorist strike against America, on Sept. 11, 2001. American policies in the Middle East hardened amidst a surge in patriotism and increased public sentiment for a military response against those who carried out the attack.

A sad irony also follows both deaths. Neither Foley nor Sotloff’s work focused on the political or military aspects of whatever ISIS wants from the Obama administration. Each was focused — and perhaps more vulnerable to the abduction that put them in ultimate harm’s way — by reporting directly on the “people” angles of the Syrian civil war and other conflict in the region.

About a week ago, Sotloff’s mother, Shirley Sotloff, made a video plea to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi not to kill her son. In it, she said, “Steven is a journalist who traveled to the Middle East to cover the suffering of Muslims at the hands of tyrants. Steven is a loyal and generous son, brother and grandson,” she said. “He is an honorable man and has always tried to help the weak.”

In the most recent video, the terrorist speaking to the camera said, “I’m back Obama and I’m back because of your arrogant foreign policy towards the Islamic State, because of your insistence in continuing your bombings. Just as your missiles continue to strike our people, our knife will continue to strike the necks of your people.” A third captive journalist, a British citizen, was shown at the end of the Sotloff video, with warning of a third execution.

Yes, Sotloff apparently was forced in the video, just prior to his death as was Foley, to recite a statement questioning U.S. involvement in Iraq. But that recitation does not politicize his work as a journalist nor in any way justify his senseless execution. And with many news organizations declining to show the most recent video, as they did with one of the Foley murder — the desired policy impact is even more remote.

The only real message — so cruelly delivered not by the news media but these online merchants of deaths — is one of futility and shame on those who composed the statements, held the cameras, posted the videos and wielded the knives.

Gene Policinski is chief operating officer of the Newseum Institute and senior vice president of the Institute’s First Amendment Center. He can be reached at gpolicinski@newseum.org

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A veteran newspaperman with 33 years experience as a reporter, editor, photographer and columnist, Phyrillas received a first place award in 2010 for best column from the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors and a first place award in 2007 for Best Opinion Column from Suburban Newspapers of America. He was recognized for column writing in 2007 by the Society of Professional Journalists, Keystone Chapter and in 2006 by the SPJ Greater Philadelphia Chapter.
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